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But people have been discussing for well over a year. Not one prominent bloggers/journalist mentioned the industrial applications. 802.11n + 10hr battery life +

by chime 17y ago

But people have been discussing for well over a year. Not one prominent bloggers/journalist mentioned the industrial applications. 802.11n + 10hr battery life + standardized browser like Safari is awesome for writing data-collection web-apps.

pavs 17y ago
There is an article for that: http://www.executivehm.com/news/itablet-in-healthcare/ http://www.executivehm.com/news/itablet-in-healthcare/
jodrellblank 17y ago
Should be an awesome opportunity for WuFoo.
tjmc 17y ago
Agreed. Another overlooked option is you can easily get people to physically sign things on it. That's a potential tipping point for a huge number of forms that are still on paper.
- bioweek 17y ago
  sign with your finger? That's probably harder than signing with a mouse.
  - jcl 17y ago
    Apparently there are styluses that will work with capacitive screens. http://robrohan.com/2009/02/27/diy-iphone-stylus-the-free-capacitive-stylus/ http://robrohan.com/2009/02/27/diy-iphone-stylus-the-free-ca...
  - netcan 17y ago
    Why not sign in with a camera?
netcan 17y ago
OK, I agree. You're right. Just sounded funny. I guess Apple's strong B2C orientation & the non-tinkerability of the device has something to do with that. Can you run the webapp on a local server, for example?
- deleted 17y ago
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- mediaman 17y ago
  Why not? WiFi links up to the local network; access the server based on an internal server. I can already do that via the iPhone.